Re: [bug #41758] VMS Make incorrectly reports archives support present.

2014-05-03 Thread h.becker
On 05/02/2014 03:17 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Sounds reasonable. I have not used image libraries in user mode code so > was not aware that they were also .olb. Hmm, the VMS linker uses imagelib.olb and you probably linked against shareable images from that library. So you may talk about somet

Re: [bug #41758] VMS Make incorrectly reports archives support present.

2014-05-03 Thread h.becker
On 05/02/2014 03:17 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Then after the tests are working correctly, to use built-ins where > appropriate to speed things up. A one-shell implementation will also help. As I mentioned before, I have code for one-shell. I wouldn't use one-shell to implement the library che

Re: [bug #42270] Make needs to canonicalise paths

2014-05-03 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Plainly _AA_ and _$(abspath AA)_ are the same file, but make doesn't think so. > Make seems just to use string matching (other relative paths to the same file > are seen as different files (_subdir/../A.. for instance)). That is correct: make targets are strings. Distinct strings are treated as

Re: [bug #42270] Make needs to canonicalise paths

2014-05-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Edward Welbourne > Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 14:12:46 + > Cc: bo...@kolpackov.net, bug-make@gnu.org > > It remains that it is up to the author of the makefiles to canonicalise > names - or, rather, chose a canonical way to refer to each file. It is > not make's job to do that. Thus has